Garment-hanger.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 190.6.

J. B. BLEIGHRODB. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.7-. 1905'.

WITNESSES: INVENTOI? %awl 5M5 ATTORNEY :4;

wan STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB B. BLEICHRODE, or NEW YORK, N. r, ASSIGNOR TO JULIUS STRAUSS, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed October 7, 1905- Serial No. 281.738.

a a resident of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improve ments in garment-hangers which are adapted to support the garment according to its shape in a spread-out condition while same is not worn.

The device allows the garment to fall nicely by its own weight while hanging thereon, whereby its natural shape is retained or wrinkles and crumples formed in the garment during continuous wear will straighten out themselves when supported by the hanger for some time, say over night.

It is the special object of my invention to provide a garment-hanger which may be folded together when not in use or during transportation. In fact, my novel device may be folded together to such an extent that it may be conveniently placed in small handbags or satchels, or it may even be carried along in the pockets of a person because it occupies so little space when in the folded condition.

The novel garmenthanger is preferably made of metal, it is plain in construction, and therefore manufactured very cheaply.

The invention further consists in the details of construction and the arrangement of parts. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents in front elevation a garment-hanger in the folded condition which embodies my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of same on line 00 a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates the device in front elevation drawn out and ready for use, and Fig. 4 shows the drawn-out device in rear elevation.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

ably in the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, forming a skeleton of rails, ribs, or bars and leav ing three open spaces for the purpose of re ducing its weight. Whilethe whole front Surface of the frame is somewhat convex, its

rear is concave as if it were dished out. This also tends to make the frame light; On the sides the frame forms two vertical rails Z) c, which are parallel and end in the semicircular top portion d. At the bottom the side rails are connected by a horizontal cross-rail e, which is somewhat enlarged in its center. Two strengthening-bars f 9 run up from the enlarged center portion of the bottom rail e to the side rails b c, the barf ending 'in the side rail 0 and the bar 9 in the side rail 1). All the described parts of the frame are stamped out of one piece of metal during one operation, and therefore integral with each other. The device is hung up on the top portion d.

The supporting and guiding plate h consists of a small metal plate whose side ends are bent in or turned over in such a manner that a groove is formed on each vertical side end of same. By turning the side ends of the plate h over the ribs '11 are formed. (See Fig. 4.) These ribs of the plate h fit over the side rails of the frame a, which latter act as guides for the plate and allow of shifting the plate up and down thereon.

The extensible part 7c of the hanger consists of a large number of small metal bars Z and four short end bars m. Half of the bars are connected with each other at their ends by means of pivots n, so that they form one continuous string of bars. The other half of the bars is likewise connected and forms a second continuous set of bars. Both sets are connected with each other in the manner shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Y The longer bars Z are jointed together. in about their middle ortions by the pivots 0 and the shorter end fiars m by the pivots p. In this way the extensible part of the hanger is formed, whose single bars or members move on all the pivots to which they are connected. When drawn out, the extensible part forms a number of rhombs, of which an odd number must be there, so as to leave even numbers of rhombs on either side of the frame when the extensible art is mounted thereon.

he extensible part is mounted on the frame, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The two lower bars Z Z of the middle rhomb are pivoted to the enlarged center portion of the bottom cross-bar e of the frame a. Now the lower portion of the frame a.

supporting and guiding plate h is shifted onto the frame a, and the two upper bars Z Z which help to form the inner rhomb, are pivoted to the top center portion of the plate h, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. It is plainly understood from the above that the extensible part of the device may be shifted or folded together, so as to occupy little space, as shown in Fig. 1, or it may be drawn out, as shownin Figs. 3 and 4. When the extensible part is drawn out, then the plate It is down on the While pushing or shifting it together, the plate 'h slides upon the frame a, and when the device is completely folded, as shown in Fig. '1, then the plate It is resting on the upper portion of the frame. Thus the plate h slldes up and down on the "frame a in accordance with the extension and folding of the extensible part is.

It will benoticed from Figs. 3 and 4 that the extensible part k whendrawn out forms a curved top surface and not a horizontal and straight line. This curve is necessary for supporting the garments nicely in accordance to their shape. This curve 1s produced by connecting the single members or bars of the extensible part not exactly in their centers. They are connected so that the upper half of each bar is somewhat longer than the lower one. In this manner the desirable and necessary curve is produced.

In the described manner I have rovided novel garment-hangers which may e folded close together and drawn out to a great extent. They are plain in construction and cheaply manufactured, and its extended part forms .a curve, althou h all its members are rigid metal bars whici are pivotally joined somewhat below their center portions, whereby the curve is produced when the extensible part is drawn out.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A garment-hanger of the type described comprising an elongated vertical frame having parallel sides which act as guides and a semicircular top portion, a supporting and guiding plate having ribs on its sides whereby grooves are formed and mounted slidably on said frame, and an extensible part mounted on both the said frame and the said plate and consisting of small bars pivotally joined somewhat below their center portionso that a curve is formed when said extensible part-is drawn out.

Signed at New York, N. Y. this 29th day of September, 1905.

JACOB B. BLEICHRO'DE. Witnesses:

LUDWIG K. BoHM, WM. P. NIEBRUGGE. 

